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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2076846, member: 19065&quot;]Hi Dave. Thanks for the new pictures. I&#039;m curious about your set up and the lighting around you. There seems to be competing colors of light. The first new image is much warmer, and I&#039;d guess, a little too yellow on the portrait and too red on the rooster. The second image is more like the initial image you posted.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the degree of these color ranges I see on my monitor compared to you or another viewer on their own PC will differ greatly just because of different types of equipment we use to view the images on. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am wondering if you are shooting with lamps positioned about 10 and 2 o&#039;clock or some other arrangement, and set about 45º to the coin. I see &quot;hot spots&quot; more around 11 and 5 o&#039;clock. The hot spots seem too intense, and so over exposed. We shouldn&#039;t see hot spots. In the other areas, such as the fields, the color seems too dark, or underexposed in contrast to the hotspots.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You may need to move the light source further back (higher) from the coin or look for a cooler type of bulb. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can try shooting in day light also, but you will have to do a lot of work to create a space for diffusing the light and work near a window and during sunny days.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Which ever situation you use for lighting, make sure you turn off ALL other light sources, which could even be light emitted from your TV or computer if it happens to be nearby. That can mean shooting pics in the evening when there is no day light entering the room, or drawing your curtains, working in a basement or a closet to control outside light. Turn off all other room lights because it all mixes with the lamps you are using to shoot with and colors will be off, or it creates shadows from you and the camera over the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I see on your coins is a blueish (daylight) color of light caught in the plastic fingers that hold the coin in the slab. You are probably using incandescent lamps to illuminate the coin&#039;s surface. This incandescent light has a warm range of light on a warm color coin, so results tend to come out TOO warm. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another issue is reflection and the coin&#039;s surface catching surrounding colors, even dark shapes, such as your body, the clothes you&#039;re wearing, the camera itself. If your lights are too bright, you can try wrapping them with common tissue paper and play with adjusting the number of layers of it to diffuse the intensity of the light. This should help to dial back the hot spots. I use tracing paper or gift wrapping tissue paper. Some people use a light box that can be purchased or built inexpensively. If your camera body is black and creating dark reflections on your coin, you can cut a hole in the middle of a large sheet of white paper, poke the lens through it and effectively mask out the darkness your camera body, tripod and/or self is creating on the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ideally you want to isolate the object (the coin), control and limit lighting source and intensity, and try to get your camera as far away from the subject as possible, while still getting a close up shot. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think getting your lighting under control will help, because you already understand your camera&#039;s functionality. I just sense some issues with the set up for shooting and illuminating the coin evenly and properly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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